Anxiety And Depression

Adolescence is a difficult time period in a young person’s transition into their later stage of both physical and mental development. Mood disorders are often overlooked during this time for the brain becoming more developed; however among children, anxiety disorders seem to be the most common disorders to be experienced (Nelson; Israel, pg 112). Barlow (2002) defines anxiety as a future-oriented emotion that is characterized by the inability to be in control and predict future events that can be potentially dangerous to the individual. Anxiety shares commonalities with fear, but the difference between the two being that fear is the initial response made from a present threat, where anxiety is due to a unknown future event. A common

A Psychology disorder known as anxiety disorder, is the most common in the United States. In a result of, 18% of 40 million people suffers from anxiety. However, there are six different types of anxiety disorders in the results of stress, depression, social interaction, obsessive compulsive, and phobia. Which characteristic functions as a natural part of life, that can be treated thought several methods.

3. As a result of this research, it is universally agreed upon that females are more susceptible to depression because of their gender specific stressful situations and their inability to deal with

society and stimulus” (Gilman) Where as in today’s society is more knowledgeable and is actively looking for solutions to the detection and assistance of getting needed help to the affected while eliminating isolation treatment of the woman experiencing the illness. Current society also does not shame a woman dealing with this illness is not a minority “Depression impairs approximately 7.5 million parents in the United States each year”.(Smith) Which is a huge part of the American population. Another reason of increased treatment is due to studies have shown “If untreated, depression can persist for years [10, 11]. Parental depression is associated with negative child health impacts extending into adulthood [9, 12]”.(Smith)

There are many similarities between mental disorders like anxiety and depression. Often times, many symptoms of one disorder stem off of having the other. For example, symptoms of anxiety can be brought on by depressive thoughts, such as thoughts about suicide, and visa versa. The differences, however, are far more prominent than the ways they are the same.

The connection between gender and psychological disorders seems to be hard to ignore and yet today we still lack the distinct research and treatment necessary to resolve the epidemic of psychological disorders in women. Women are twice as likely to suffer from anxiety disorders than men, a study showed 10% of mothers obtain a mental health problem during motherhood while only 6% of fathers experience these issues (“Mental Health Statistics: Men and Women.") and women predominate over men in rates of major depression (Astbury, Cabral). The gap in between men and women experiencing these mental health problems seems to be clear but we have to ask ourselves, why? We often associate mental health issues with individual

When it comes to suicide in the United States, males are more likely to commit suicide than females. Nurse Practitioners can begin to format men’s health practices and educate male depression to the men’s suicide prevention. The article explains how men are regularly diagnosed with depression at half the rate of women leaving a stigma to men correlated with depression. The article further explains how Nurse Practitioners can learn to prevent suicide by identifying and subscribing the nature of men’s depression. Research clams how masculine standards, such as stoicism, self-reliance, and competiveness, idolize as barriers for men trying to look after their health. Men with these masculine characteristics are more acceptable to enroll in risky

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning individuals are almost 3 times more likely than others to experience a mental health condition such as major depression or generalized anxiety disorder (National Alliance on Mental Illness). That is around 55% of LGBTQ people who will develop a mental illness. While some mental illnesses can be genetic, prejudice and stigma have created a higher rate of mental illness in LGBTQ youth because mental illnesses and disorders develop due to prejudice resulting in hate crimes, the stigma of mental health, and the homophobia and transphobia in the United States - all of which that efforts to change are slowly being implemented in schools and homes around the nation. Prejudice and hate crimes such as sexual assault, murder, and torture are not something uncommon for LGBTQ people to experience. For instance, in 2016, 27 transgender people reported to have been murdered, that is more than two people murdered a month (Schmider). However, we can trace it back to much earlier than that.

College represents a form of higher learning. For many, it is also a time for personal growth as we transition into adulthood. This in itself is a stressful situation as one must make drastic adjustments to a new role, environment, and demands. Stress is a major contributor to the development of mental and emotional issues (Rodgers, L., Tennison, L. 2009). Research has been done to determine the impact of depression and anxiety on university students. It has been

Anxiety is defined as “a fear or nervousness about what might happen” (New Webster’s). Though, there are some people that would define it as a nightmare that one cannot stop. Everyone has felt anxious or embarrassed at one time or another. However, anxiety disorders involve more than temporary worry or fear. Anxiety can keep you up at night. Anxiety is a constant fear that can leave a person tossing and turning every night. Even during the day, terror strikes during simple conversation, life itself feels agonizing. Researching anxiety, causes, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatment is just the first step in understanding how anxiety suffers truly feel.

Campaign attention, information seeking, and learning are also influenced by emotions. These emotions, including anxiety, enthusiasm, and anger all influence how individuals consider, understand and react to political candidates and their policies. Although dissimilar, fear and anxiety have many similar effects. Anxiety and fear often leads an individual's attention to threats, which increases their information processing to manage or resolve the situation. This can be seen in the theory of affective intelligence, where anxiety causes a deliberative citizenship, in which citizens read more, exposing them to other views, which allows them to be open to cooperation. Anxious citizens are more likely defect from their political loyalties and less

When people are under stress, they feel anxious and at times, depression sets in, but both feeling influence the other one, so they hinder people's ability to cope in difficult situations.

There are different factors that affect a person’s emotional and physical state. The first article is “Changing gender roles and attitudes and their implications for well-being around the new millennium.” The article was published in Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology in May 2014, written by Helen Sweeting, Abita Bhaskar, Michaela Benzeval, Frank Popham, and Kate Hunt . Data was collected from the British Household Panel Survey from 20 to 64 year olds in heterosexual couple’s households in 1991. The hypothesis was that there are associations between gender roles and emotional suffering in men and women of working age. According to Sweeting, Bhaskar, Benzeval, Popham, and Hunt (2014), “gender traditionalism was lower among women, younger people, and those in ‘less traditional’ relationships and households.” This can be attributed to a younger generation being more

Fear is a common emotion exhibited by people who stutter (PWS). The fear of negative evaluation is commonly displayed by PWS (Fjola, 1246); when this fear is significantly excessive, the PWS may meet the criteria for a clinical diagnosis of social anxiety (Brundage, Winters, & Beilby, p. 499). Social anxiety frequently causes PWS to isolate themselves from social interactions, and, when in situations, to utilize safety behaviors to prevent stuttering and reduce anxiety. Safety behaviors consequently maintain social anxiety in PWS rather than exacerbate the disorder (Lowe et al., 2017, pp. 1246-1247). More is known regarding the development of social anxiety is adults who stutter (AWS) than the information pertaining to children who stutter (CWS) and their fear of negative evaluation which results in social anxiety (Iverach, Menzies, O’Brian, Packman, & Onslow, 2011, p. 228). The difference in available information may be due to the thought that social anxiety is a short-term effect in CWS but a life-long effect in AWS (Iverach, Jones, McLellan, Lyneham, Menzies, Onslow, & Rapee, 2016, p. 15).

Transgender students’ rights have significantly improved since the past three decades. According to the University of Massachusetts, American education in the 1970’s dismissed the rising number of transgender individuals as “a rapid [growth][…]of mental illness” (UMass 18). According to an analysis done by Susan Stryker, it was not until the late 1980’s when “The first organized transgender community [was formed]” and even then “transgender individuals and students were officially classified as psychopathic” (Stryker 4). Health and institutions of psychology abroad in America were intent on disavowing transgender individuals and students as mentally ill, and only through small increments was any change proposed.